WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have put off key nuclear deterrence talks and a related exercise originally set to take place in Washington this week, a Pentagon spokesperson said Tuesday, after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of emergency martial law. Seoul and Washington had planned [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law appeared to have taken the United States aback, pushing its officials to ensure the alliance with the long-trusted Asian ally is “ironclad” while voicing hope for a “peaceful” resolution. After Yoon made the surprise declaration of emergency martial [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, citing escalating threats to national security and constitutional order. The announcement, delivered in an emergency address from the presidential office in Yongsan, invoked Article 77 of the South Korean Constitution, which permits martial law in cases of war, armed conflict, or [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –Half of the citizens from eight countries regard the unification of South and North Korea as necessary, and North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons is cited as the top prerequisite for unification, a poll showed Tuesday. A total of 50 percent of respondents said the two Koreas should [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia is believed to have used some 60 ballistic missiles provided by North Korea in the war against Ukraine, a Ukrainian media outlet has reported, citing its intelligence authorities. Andrii Chernyak, the representative of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine’s (DIU) defense ministry, shared the analysis in an interview with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A fifth round of international negotiations for a binding plastic regulation agreement has ended without a deal, with delegates agreeing to resume talks at a later date. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution met in the southeastern city of Busan from last Monday until Sunday to try [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said North Korean soldiers deployed to western Russia have been killed or injured during combat against Ukrainian forces, adding to global criticism they will be used as “cannon fodder” for Moscow, a Japanese report showed. Zelenskyy shared the assessment during an interview with Japan’s [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in the United States has hired a public strategy company previously associated with President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff nominee, a move seen as aiming to enhance communication with Trump’s team. According to the U.S. Department of Justice on Sunday, Mercury Public Affairs reported its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean companies operating in Vietnam have experienced technology theft by their employees this year, a state-funded research institute said Monday. The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) conducted a poll of 335 Korean firms that have business operations in Vietnam during the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Monday that it plans to implement an enhanced crackdown on Chinese boats fishing illegally in the West Sea this week in cooperation with the Coast Guard. The country will work to round up boats fishing or operating illegally in South Korea’s Exclusive Economic Zone [...]